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QGIS User Guide, Rilis 2.0
using the right mouse button over the toolbar.
18.1 First steps
18.1.1 Open a new Print Composer Template
Before you start to work with the print composer, you need to load some raster and vector layers in the QGIS map
canvas and adapt their properties to suit your own convenience. After everything is rendered and symbolized to
New Print Composer
icon in the toolbar or choose File → New Print Composer. You will be
your liking, click the
prompt to choose a title for the new composer.
18.1.2 Using Print Composer
Opening the print composer provides you with a blank canvas to which you can add the current QGIS map
canvas, text labels, images, legends, scalebars, basic shapes, arrows, attribute tables and HTML frames. Figure_composer_1 shows the initial view of the print composer with an activated
any elements are added.
Snap to grid mode but before
Gambar 18.1: Print Composer
The print composer provides four tabs:
• The Composition tab allows you to set paper size, orientation, the print quality for the output file in dpi
and to activate snapping to a grid of a defined resolution. You can also choose the Number of pages your
composition will have. Please note, the
Snap to grid feature only works, if you define a grid resolution
> 0. Furthermore you can also activate the
Print as raster checkbox. This means all elements will be
rastered before printing or saving as Postscript or PDF.
Select/Move item
• The Item Properties tab displays the properties for the selected item element. Click the
icon to select an element (e.g. legend, scalebar or label) on the canvas. Then click the Item Properties tab
and customize the settings for the selected element.
• The Command history tab (hidden by default) displays a history of all changes applied to the print composer
layout. With a mouse click it is possible to undo and redo layout steps back and forth to a certain status.
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Bab 18. Print Composer